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we're gonna use an electric motor. we're gonna hook up that gasoline engine, and the two of them together will give us unbelievable efficiency, and not only that, but the car will run extremely clean. >> this might even be more ghetto than usual. we found milk crates. i think we're gonna build the, uh, the prototype battery box out of milk crates, so it's a new low for us. >> so, we have to get everything in the car, the battery packs, make sure the motors are running, just to make sure that we can test it out before the competition. >> there's a little mathematical formula that tells us how much current this is gonna put out. it's gonna put out as much as it can. >> we've got to be very careful how we assemble this battery pack because once we put a few batteries together and hook them together, there's enough voltage there to actually kill somebody. >> we don't have million dollar computers that run cad software simulations. we don't have 70 engineers like cornell university, and you can assign 20 this and 20 that. >
we're gonna use an electric motor. we're gonna hook up that gasoline engine, and the two of them together will give us unbelievable efficiency, and not only that, but the car will run extremely clean. >> this might even be more ghetto than usual. we found milk crates. i think we're gonna build the, uh, the prototype battery box out of milk crates, so it's a new low for us. >> so, we have to get everything in the car, the battery packs, make sure the motors are running, just to make...
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as an use "jersey shore" example. if i were 20, and you told me go down to the beach, act out, and we will pay you. i would be afraid to see the footage. ok? this is a wealthy woman. what do you think about the sense that you had dinner with last night that put that stuff on? -- suits that you had dinner with last night that put that stuff on? item 62. when i was a kid, there was a guy on tv who used to tell us at 7:30, it is time for all good children to go to sleep. and we would go to sleep. if you watched a warner brothers cartoon, bugs bunny would make so many references to history and classical music, you could win "jeopardy." tavis: nakia. >> one of the great kids of all time. she was my go-to girl. wages to a fund-raiser in march. -- we just did a fund-raiser in march. teacher persisted and talent show and she was my emcee. -- teachers versus student talent show and she was my emc. she was smart, she is going to college, by the way. she was eye dynamic kid, a musician, she had a lot of friends. and then she had
as an use "jersey shore" example. if i were 20, and you told me go down to the beach, act out, and we will pay you. i would be afraid to see the footage. ok? this is a wealthy woman. what do you think about the sense that you had dinner with last night that put that stuff on? -- suits that you had dinner with last night that put that stuff on? item 62. when i was a kid, there was a guy on tv who used to tell us at 7:30, it is time for all good children to go to sleep. and we would go...
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stay with us. anthony salcito is the vp of worldwide education at microsoft, overseeing a $500 million initiative including the microsoft will of the future and philadelphia and the microsoft friends network. good to have you on the program. tell me about this program that microsoft is behind. >> it is called partners in learning and it started eight years ago. microsoft was looking at the ways in which we can uplift not only technology in education but how we can work with leaders all over the world to solve some of the big problems facing our teachers and students. we have been working on the ground to make a difference. tavis: hard as it advanced the cause of education? >> the question is interesting. in the classroom. technology has a role in the classroom. those questions are starting to be asked by school leaders and teachers around how they can use technology. we have to be thoughtful about asking the right questions and not just to jam it into classrooms which has happened. technology can p
stay with us. anthony salcito is the vp of worldwide education at microsoft, overseeing a $500 million initiative including the microsoft will of the future and philadelphia and the microsoft friends network. good to have you on the program. tell me about this program that microsoft is behind. >> it is called partners in learning and it started eight years ago. microsoft was looking at the ways in which we can uplift not only technology in education but how we can work with leaders all...
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it is a year-round commitment, and i think they are being terribly used. i do not think it's fair to nick savin to get close to $6 million. he do not play the game. they play the game. tavis: got a minute to go. let me come back to the book "father's day." i do not want to put you necessarily in a position of offering advice to parents of mentally challenged kids, but what's your advice to fathers, though, who have sons who, for whatever reason, they are struggling to establish a connect with in their relationship? >> my advice would be, and i did reality, and then i think things will flow to you that you always wanted. there are all different ways of measuring success. it took me a long time to realize it's not about going to an ivy league school. it's not about the kind of job you had. making the best of it to build a world for yourself. if you can get there, the love and the appreciation and the pride, i believe, will come. tavis: so character trumps intellect. >> no question. tavis: the new book from buzz is into the mind and heart of my extraordinary
it is a year-round commitment, and i think they are being terribly used. i do not think it's fair to nick savin to get close to $6 million. he do not play the game. they play the game. tavis: got a minute to go. let me come back to the book "father's day." i do not want to put you necessarily in a position of offering advice to parents of mentally challenged kids, but what's your advice to fathers, though, who have sons who, for whatever reason, they are struggling to establish a...
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monetary policy is not a very useful tool for solving a lot of these problems. we're a very blunt instrument. >> i'm sure you hear this all the time that people complain that it's so difficult to get a mortgage or refinance their home even if they have a good credit cord. isn't there anything that the fed can do to encourage banks to lend more? >> we don't want banks making the type of loans they made in 2005 and 2006 because that's what got the banks in trouble. so supervisors are naturally going to say we don't want you to doing that again. so trying to find where the right line is and making good loans available. there's plenty of liquidity out there to make the loan. but we want the banks makin making-- sound loans. >> susie: looking at the markets, the fed's actions seem to be telling investors that stocks are the way to go. is that a fair conclusion for investors to make? >> we've been encouraging people to, as we say, move out the risk curve. take on more risk because we've lowered the cost of treasuries and faced securities, lowered the yield on those, e
monetary policy is not a very useful tool for solving a lot of these problems. we're a very blunt instrument. >> i'm sure you hear this all the time that people complain that it's so difficult to get a mortgage or refinance their home even if they have a good credit cord. isn't there anything that the fed can do to encourage banks to lend more? >> we don't want banks making the type of loans they made in 2005 and 2006 because that's what got the banks in trouble. so supervisors are...
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give us a sense of what a national... like you had the millennium goals, what ought to be the millennium goals in global health for 2012? >> well, we have a huge unfinished agenda. aids is one of them. there's still two million people who have become infected. we have still malaria, t.b., women dying while giving birth. on the other hand, we also have a new emerging agenda such as diabetes and obesity and we've got to work on both sides and i think the key is going to be to find efficiencies and work far more together so that we get the best bang for the buck in terms of operations on the ground. >> rose: how do we do that? find efficiencies and work together? >>. >> i think we need to plan better we know how to do that and... but it doesn't make sense to have on the one corner of the street a program so women will not transmit h.i.v., pregnant women to their baby and on the other hand on the other corner of the street a clinic for regular anti-natal care. let's put them together. that's one very practical example. >> thi
give us a sense of what a national... like you had the millennium goals, what ought to be the millennium goals in global health for 2012? >> well, we have a huge unfinished agenda. aids is one of them. there's still two million people who have become infected. we have still malaria, t.b., women dying while giving birth. on the other hand, we also have a new emerging agenda such as diabetes and obesity and we've got to work on both sides and i think the key is going to be to find...
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robert stovall is back with us, bob, it's always great to see you. why do you think now, given all these worries out there, now is a good time to buy stocks? >> i think because the worries are pretty well disseminated. we all know what they are, and there's a great deal of if he were out there. so the market tend to absorb these things. it is a discounting mechanism, you know. so i think we look ahead and say, gee, the earnings are good. they could be topping out a bit, but dividend increases are still very common. they've been about-- about 70 companies have raised their dividends recently in receipt quarteres, a major increase in cash, to the investors. earns are fairly strong, and i think fears of a recession have been put to rest because of the pickup, finally, in housing stocks. and real estate turnaround-- >> tom: isn't what we've seen, though, in the past couple of weeks, at least the last six sessions, preissing is a bit of concern of slower corporate profites, slowing corporate sales? >> there has been a fear of that. that's right. and all t
robert stovall is back with us, bob, it's always great to see you. why do you think now, given all these worries out there, now is a good time to buy stocks? >> i think because the worries are pretty well disseminated. we all know what they are, and there's a great deal of if he were out there. so the market tend to absorb these things. it is a discounting mechanism, you know. so i think we look ahead and say, gee, the earnings are good. they could be topping out a bit, but dividend...
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former fdic chairman sheila bair joins us. and if american airlines and its pilots strike a deal tomorrow, it could mean fewer delays for customers and the company's bankruptcy. that and more tonight on nbr! captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: some encouraging news tonight for the housing market and consumer confidence. first, housing-- a measurement of prices in 20 cities across the country rose four tenths of a peent in july. that's the sixth straight month of gains for the s&p case- shiller home price index. and consumer's are feeling more optimistic. the conference board's confidence index rose to 70.3 in september, marking its highest level since february. these two groups, consumers and housing, are significant because of their influence over the entire economy. >> with the improvement in consumer confidence, we think that consumer spending could pick up as we go into next year. especially since the housing market is showing signs of life and moem prices are jarting to firm up. but the encouraging data didn't help stock
former fdic chairman sheila bair joins us. and if american airlines and its pilots strike a deal tomorrow, it could mean fewer delays for customers and the company's bankruptcy. that and more tonight on nbr! captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: some encouraging news tonight for the housing market and consumer confidence. first, housing-- a measurement of prices in 20 cities across the country rose four tenths of a peent in july. that's the sixth straight month of gains for the s&p...
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and it's still with us. it's still with us, because ultimately, as a social problem, crime has become like it was in the jim crow south, a mechanism to control black people's movement in cities. just as douglas blackmon described in "slavery by another name" -- >> a great book, by the way. >> a great book -- >> what happened to blacks after the civil war, how they were freed. >> right. the invention of convict leasing as a mechanism to -- i mean, they had many sources, but one was an economic project to rebuild the south on the backs of imprisoned, leased african americans sold to private industry. and the net simply widened, because there was a lot of money to be made in doing that kind of work. in douglas blackmon's work, we learn how elastic were laws like vagrancy laws, intended effectively to empower any citizen and/or law enforcement official to check the papers of a black person moving freely along the world. and if you couldn't prove that you were currently employed, bound to a tenant farming contrac
and it's still with us. it's still with us, because ultimately, as a social problem, crime has become like it was in the jim crow south, a mechanism to control black people's movement in cities. just as douglas blackmon described in "slavery by another name" -- >> a great book, by the way. >> a great book -- >> what happened to blacks after the civil war, how they were freed. >> right. the invention of convict leasing as a mechanism to -- i mean, they had many...
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he wound up doing forebuilding for us, beautifully which i'm sure we'll talk b and we wound up using shop architect, the wonderful thing is we have remained very good friends. and one thing i have to say about what frank did, what frank actually designed is not much more expensive or more expensive than another architect. >> rose: is that true of most of quote star architects, that what they design is not that much more expensive than what any good architect would design. >> well, the ones i've worked w that is true. renzo of "the new york times" b i would say that building was not significantly, not substantially more expensive. 8th spruce street which frank designed, not much more expensive. hugh hardy, a very good local architect, design architect, cause lot of work with us. not more expensive. you have to be very efficient. i think we built close to 40, believe it or not, buildings ground up in the city. and so we've done a lot of building. you have to have a fair amount of experience. but i don't think it's much more expensive, if more expensive. >> rose: so what are we left wit
he wound up doing forebuilding for us, beautifully which i'm sure we'll talk b and we wound up using shop architect, the wonderful thing is we have remained very good friends. and one thing i have to say about what frank did, what frank actually designed is not much more expensive or more expensive than another architect. >> rose: is that true of most of quote star architects, that what they design is not that much more expensive than what any good architect would design. >> well,...
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and it basically uses the model of the new deal which got us out of the great depression, created a lot of jobs in the 1930s. we can do that. it directly creates jobs in our communities, and at the same time that it creates jobs it also jumpstarts the green economy that effectively spells an end to climate change and makes wars for oil obsolete. it makes national dollars available at the local level so our communities can decide what kinds of jobs they need to become sustainable. so it creates jobs for teachers. let's hire back those hundreds of thousands of teachers who've been laid off, nurses, childcare after school, home care, elder care, violence prevention, drug abuse rehabilitation, affordable housing construction. it allows people to go down to an employment office and get a job in public works and public services. and it also provides funding for small businesses and startups at the community level. >> what do you say when someone says you're utopian. you want what is impractical and impossible? >> you know, my whole life has been about dealing with reality and being as pragmat
and it basically uses the model of the new deal which got us out of the great depression, created a lot of jobs in the 1930s. we can do that. it directly creates jobs in our communities, and at the same time that it creates jobs it also jumpstarts the green economy that effectively spells an end to climate change and makes wars for oil obsolete. it makes national dollars available at the local level so our communities can decide what kinds of jobs they need to become sustainable. so it creates...
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thank you for joining us. i'm kathy kaye. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding for this presentation was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers use their expertise in global finance to guide you through the business strategies and opportunities of international commerce. we put our extended global network to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. >> this is nbr. captioning sponsored by wpbt
thank you for joining us. i'm kathy kaye. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding for this presentation was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers use their expertise in global finance to guide you through the business strategies and opportunities of international commerce. we put our extended global network to work for a wide...
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join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, scenes from the opening of a newly restored buddhist temple in siberia which had been destroyed under stalin. >>> major funding for "religion & ethics newsweekly" is provided by lilly endowment, an indianapolis based private foundation dedicated to its founders interests in religion, dedicated to education. additional funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. the estate of william j. carter. the jane henson foundation. and the corporation for public broadcasting.
join us at pbs.org. as we leave you, scenes from the opening of a newly restored buddhist temple in siberia which had been destroyed under stalin. >>> major funding for "religion & ethics newsweekly" is provided by lilly endowment, an indianapolis based private foundation dedicated to its founders interests in religion, dedicated to education. additional funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're...
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denise and joe join us now. and the author thomas jefferson pretty well-known, vice president, minister to france, secretary of state and eventually president. but the other 55, not so much. >> not so much. >> well who were they. if you were to look across the room, who was sitting in that hot summer room in philadelphia? >> the 55, i mean i would say out of the 56 men, the 5 we know are franklin, jefferson and hancock. i think these days other people would say i recognize john adams because of the mini series and sam adams because of a beer. that's just the way it is. the other men, i think if you look at them across their professions, some of them were lawyers, some were doctors. kreiger politicians. a large number made their income from agricultural work, whether that was a large plantation in the south or a small farm. >> these were men who enjoyed a role of prominence, that's how they ended up in the continental congress. some of them started out from humble beginnings. not the majority of them but there ar
denise and joe join us now. and the author thomas jefferson pretty well-known, vice president, minister to france, secretary of state and eventually president. but the other 55, not so much. >> not so much. >> well who were they. if you were to look across the room, who was sitting in that hot summer room in philadelphia? >> the 55, i mean i would say out of the 56 men, the 5 we know are franklin, jefferson and hancock. i think these days other people would say i recognize...
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and they listened to us. and i'm here ten years later, and i've just been at a breakfast meeting, as you were, and listened to the most wonderful speeches. we've come so far. it's become a real bipartisan cause, which i'm very happy to see. and in the case of america, it's... certainly without america, we'd be facing catastrophe. >> ifill: so many nations in africa resisted. >> they resisted for a long time and now south africa has woken up and is doing great things. if south africa becomes a template to where aids is in the subsaharan continent all the other countries will follow suit and michel sidibe spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning saying there was so much hope for africa now that south africa has its house in order. and president'm beck kay said if you have aids you get a shot and it goes away. or it's causeded by poverty. we faced those issues. now the new regime, they really paid attention and when south africa speaks, the whole of africa will listen. >> ifill: you have harsh words in your b
and they listened to us. and i'm here ten years later, and i've just been at a breakfast meeting, as you were, and listened to the most wonderful speeches. we've come so far. it's become a real bipartisan cause, which i'm very happy to see. and in the case of america, it's... certainly without america, we'd be facing catastrophe. >> ifill: so many nations in africa resisted. >> they resisted for a long time and now south africa has woken up and is doing great things. if south africa...
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what can you tell us about the other targets? >> well, the other targets were provincialpi catalsin th eet. e areas where the taliban and the insurgency are active at this point. that entire eastern frontier with pakistan is highly active. winter has gone. the spring is here. the fighting season has started. these are people who are coming over from pakistan. these are people who have done nothing in the winter. they're infiltrating. they're active in the east. the next big campaign for the united states, the nato forces, is going to be in the east. the south is going to be involved in the consolidation process. so it's not surprising that all the attacks happened in the east. kabul is in the east. >> brown: patrick quinn in kabul, thanks so much. >> thank you and good night. >> suarez: still to come on the newshour, collecting personal and private data; preventing cyber attacks; investigating misconduct by secret service agents; and the pulitzer prizes for arts and journalism. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sr
what can you tell us about the other targets? >> well, the other targets were provincialpi catalsin th eet. e areas where the taliban and the insurgency are active at this point. that entire eastern frontier with pakistan is highly active. winter has gone. the spring is here. the fighting season has started. these are people who are coming over from pakistan. these are people who have done nothing in the winter. they're infiltrating. they're active in the east. the next big campaign for...
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so accept us, were democratic. we're not like them. >> reporter: but ennahda party leaders have said that the new assembly will not introduce sharia law or other islamic concepts to the new constitution. intissar kherigi, daughter of ennahda party leader rachid ghannouchi, defends her party's stance toward women. she says the fact that ennahda has 42 female representatives in the parliament speaks of its intention to help women succeed in the public, as well as the private, domain. >> i think you can take a look at the ennahda women in the assembly and see the kind of work they do. many of them are professors, many of them are lawyers, many of them are doctors, they are entirely representative of the ennahda mainstream. all of my sisters, my three sisters, are doing phds. there's been always a spirit of education in our household. because without education, you can't build a democratic society. >> reporter: jawhara ettis is an english teacher and ennahda party member who had to quit her teaching job when she was el
so accept us, were democratic. we're not like them. >> reporter: but ennahda party leaders have said that the new assembly will not introduce sharia law or other islamic concepts to the new constitution. intissar kherigi, daughter of ennahda party leader rachid ghannouchi, defends her party's stance toward women. she says the fact that ennahda has 42 female representatives in the parliament speaks of its intention to help women succeed in the public, as well as the private, domain....
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before i finished talking with the manager, they fired on us. the manager hid behind his desk but other guys who were security guards and waiters >> holman: police said all five of the gunmen were killed.rm in iraq, a pair of bombs exploded in a crowded market in baghdad. at least 14 people died and more than 100 others were wounded. the bombs went off within minutes of each other in a largely shiite muslim neighborhood in the northeastern part of the capital. so far this month, attacks in iraq have killed more than 160 people, mostly shiites and iraqi security forces. lawmakers in pakistan elected a new prime minister today amid continuing political turbulence. he is raja pervaiz ashraf, the information minister in the previous government. he replaces yousuf raza gilani, who was ousted this week by a decree of the country's supreme court. gilani ran afoul of the court when he refused to initiate a corruption investigation of pakistan's president, asif ali zardari. crowds of egyptians thronged cairo's tahrir square today to rally for the muslim
before i finished talking with the manager, they fired on us. the manager hid behind his desk but other guys who were security guards and waiters >> holman: police said all five of the gunmen were killed.rm in iraq, a pair of bombs exploded in a crowded market in baghdad. at least 14 people died and more than 100 others were wounded. the bombs went off within minutes of each other in a largely shiite muslim neighborhood in the northeastern part of the capital. so far this month, attacks...
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fill out this report for us, this picture for us. what are the numbers behind the numbers? >> well, it really was a dismal report. what we saw was a return of something that had been absent for a bit. and that was the gap between public and private sector employment. we had sort of seen the state and local sector, many people thought the cuts were behind them, and they wouldn't be the headwind that they were last year at this time when many teachers were being laid off. well, in this report we saw teachers again being laid off that counted for more than half of all the layoffs in the public sector were teachers at both the state level and local level. then we started to see postal workers disappear at the federal level. so the private sector was sort of carrying the economy in the past. and then we had seen finally the public sector headwinds begin to abatement that now has reversed again. and that was consistent with something else we saw this week with gdp numbers showed that in fact instead of roycing in the first quarter, state and local government spending contracted.
fill out this report for us, this picture for us. what are the numbers behind the numbers? >> well, it really was a dismal report. what we saw was a return of something that had been absent for a bit. and that was the gap between public and private sector employment. we had sort of seen the state and local sector, many people thought the cuts were behind them, and they wouldn't be the headwind that they were last year at this time when many teachers were being laid off. well, in this...
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so he uses him essentially as cover. and they make it back, but, a couple days after he returns, he gets arrested in a hotel with a woman, and there's some kind of incident. whether it's an overdose or she gets sick, there's something having to do with drugs or drug use that causes a commotion and draws the attention of the authorities, and headley gets arrested for drug possession. but somehow, gilani got away with it. he gamed the system and survived. then, in 1988, a turning point. he got caught in transit by us drug agents, two kilos of pakistani heroin tucked into the false bottom of his suitcase. on the spot, he agreed to cooperate with the dea, the drug enforcement administration. one partner got ten years, the other got eight. gilani only got four. >> he just turns around immediately and betrays everybody when it's convenient for him. basically, it's survival for himself. >> rotella: gilani did his time. he moved to new york, opening a video store. but three years later, he was arrested again for drug smuggling.
so he uses him essentially as cover. and they make it back, but, a couple days after he returns, he gets arrested in a hotel with a woman, and there's some kind of incident. whether it's an overdose or she gets sick, there's something having to do with drugs or drug use that causes a commotion and draws the attention of the authorities, and headley gets arrested for drug possession. but somehow, gilani got away with it. he gamed the system and survived. then, in 1988, a turning point. he got...
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they actually used to use this a lot on watch bracelets. now, we looked on the back, we found hallmarks that identify it as being french. it is platinum, and you also have it accented by old mine diamonds. now, what i'm going to do is spin it around for everybody and we can see that it's a watch. it has the name of the company that probably sold it at one point in its life. at auction, $30,000 to $50,000. gee. (laughs) that's unbelievable. it is numbered in the back. and after showing it to everybody at the jewelry table and talking over with the watch people, there is a slight possibility, with research, we feel that it may possibly be cartier. it's worth looking into because let's say it was cartier and we can document that, then the price would change. it would be even higher? higher, of course. so it could be possibly $50,000 to $75,000. that's unbelievable. are you kidding? no, i'm not kidding you. man: i got this from my grandmother. she lived in wisconsin for several years, and i was a young boy then, and i always admired the piece.
they actually used to use this a lot on watch bracelets. now, we looked on the back, we found hallmarks that identify it as being french. it is platinum, and you also have it accented by old mine diamonds. now, what i'm going to do is spin it around for everybody and we can see that it's a watch. it has the name of the company that probably sold it at one point in its life. at auction, $30,000 to $50,000. gee. (laughs) that's unbelievable. it is numbered in the back. and after showing it to...
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i had an uncle that used to sit on it. he used to sit on, on this? and put his socks on every morning. okay. and take his shoes off, i'm sure, at night. threw his dirty socks inside. inside there? i thought i, i thought i smelled something, i don't know. there you go, there you go. yes, it's still got that scent. but they say that you can see his little bottom end marks. you know, with some imagination, i can imagine that. i don't know if that's... my mother always said that this was used as a document box on the mantel in one of the bedrooms. in one of the bedrooms, okay. well, first of all, this piece is made in the tradition of philadelphia. philadelphia cabinetmakers, during the federal period when this was made-- 17, probably 90, okay, to about 1805-- were using inlay, like this light wood stringing. the piece itself is walnut with this wonderful light wood inlay, which is probably holly. these were made with a compass-- they took the compass, made the incision, and inlayed this. also this banding, and coming down, this wonderful veneered skirt
i had an uncle that used to sit on it. he used to sit on, on this? and put his socks on every morning. okay. and take his shoes off, i'm sure, at night. threw his dirty socks inside. inside there? i thought i, i thought i smelled something, i don't know. there you go, there you go. yes, it's still got that scent. but they say that you can see his little bottom end marks. you know, with some imagination, i can imagine that. i don't know if that's... my mother always said that this was used as a...
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stay with us. s the following is a pbs election 2012 special event. >> woodruff: good evening once again. welcome back to this pbs newshour special coverage of election night 2012. i'm judy wood rough. the story so far tonight in the presidential race, president obama has won the traditionally democratic northeast. mitt romney has swept the south. but not a single major battle ground state has yet been called. >> ifill: and i'm gwen i've. it's 9:00 eastern time. the polls have now closed in washington d.c. and in 40 states including 15 which just closed moments ago. we're going to talk to mark shields and david brooks who are joining us here again as they have all night about what we have seen so far tonight. we don't have any trends yet that are emerging, do we? except we don't know. >> that's not a trend. i guess the only thing again what you do at this time of night, you see 50, 40% in some of the swing states especially florida and virginia. so you look at where they're coming in, where the vot
stay with us. s the following is a pbs election 2012 special event. >> woodruff: good evening once again. welcome back to this pbs newshour special coverage of election night 2012. i'm judy wood rough. the story so far tonight in the presidential race, president obama has won the traditionally democratic northeast. mitt romney has swept the south. but not a single major battle ground state has yet been called. >> ifill: and i'm gwen i've. it's 9:00 eastern time. the polls have now...